Swarm-IDE: Self-Organizing Agent Swarm

🎬 Video (Open‑source Kimi‑K2.5 Multi‑Agent Swarm)

• Demo (inline playback):
• Bilibili full demo: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1X163BQE5c/?share_source=copy_web&vd_source=e0705640ea2f51669a392fb07684e286

WeChat Group

Advantages

• Create sub‑agents dynamically
• Message any agent directly
• WeChat‑style chat UI: intervene at any depth anytime
• Streaming graph that visualizes collaboration in real time

Comparison

It is worth noting that this project independently introduced swarm mode before both Kimi-Swarm and Claude Team. Claude Team in particular shows striking overlap: with careful comparison, its core ideas (dynamic delegation and human-to-any-agent communication) align closely with this project’s design. To some extent, this reflects the advanced perspective behind the design. Building this independently at a time when static LangGraph workflows were dominant was notably ahead of its time. The whitepaper was timestamped on-chain back then; if you want to verify this directly, see the on-chain timestamp.

Item	Kimi-Swarm	Claude Agent Team	Swarm-IDE
Nested agents	❌	❌	✅
Inter-agent messaging	❌	✅	✅
Human to sub-agent messaging	❌	✅	✅
Group chat mode	❌	❌	✅
Visualization	❌	❌	✅
Open source	❌	❌	✅
Release date	2026.1.27	2026.2.6	2026.1.2

UI Design

• Graph shows swarm topology and live communication links
• Tree‑structured multi‑level dialogs: talk to any agent like a chat app (even deep ones)
• LLM history panel: shows the agent’s context; no more black box
• Streaming tool‑call parameters in real time

Philosophy

• Minimal primitives: only a few communication primitives are required (core is create + send)
• Liquid topology: topology evolves during runtime; agents “hire” sub‑agents on demand
• Flat collaboration: humans can step into any layer at any time

Concept

No complex nodes/edges abstraction — just think of “many people”:

Everyone can spawn children and talk to anyone.

With only these two capabilities, any structure can be built.

How to Run

cd agent-wechat
cd backend

cp .env.example .env.local
# Fill your keys and model names in .env.local

docker compose up -d
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:3017/api/admin/init-db
bun install
bun dev

Open http://localhost:3017

Click init-db, then create a workspace to start.

Try: “Create 3 children, ask them to message each other, then have each create 3 grandchildren.”

Zhihu

https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/2000736341479138182

Environment Variables

The backend reads backend/.env.local:

• OPENROUTER_API_KEY / OPENROUTER_MODEL (I use OpenRouter Kimi 2.5)
• See backend/.env.example for all fields